Oct 11th 2012 - Sometimes in meetings at JPMorgan Chase & Co., Ryan Enriquez is tempted to bark at his employees to "lock it up" when conference calls lose focus. And when he's managing projects in the mortgage division, he sometimes finds himself adopting the Marine Corps' 5-Paragraph Order to introduce order to the large-scale projects he oversees.
Enriquez, who served in Iraq in 2003 during the initial invasion, is just one of 10.3 million Americans working in corporate America, according to GIJobs.com. He was hired in 2011, and was one of the first veterans as part of the bank's 100,000 jobs mission. The goal is to get the vets hired by 2020.
Nate Herman, the bank's former executive director in charge of military affairs and founder of the campaign, told New York's Daily News that it was "the right thing to do, but it's also a business imperative." He went on to add: "We are not running a charity. This is the kind of talent we need to be successful in the marketplace."
The 100,000 Jobs Mission
snip Such a contribution couldn't be coming at a pressing time. Thanks in part to government programs like the Department of Labor's America's Heroes At Work, the unemployment rate for post-9/11 vets has dropped from its high of 15.2 percent in January, 2011, to the most recent figure of 8.9 percent in July.
JPMorgan is not alone in trying to make a dent in veteran unemployment. On Aug. 22, the White House announced that its Joining Forces initiative has led to the hiring of 125,000 veterans and their spouses since it was launched last August. read more>>>
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